No thank you

By making it voluntary for businesses instead of a broad-based tax for everyone, he's fucked over the working poor who work for McD's, Walgreens, Maplefields and all the other worker-hostile companies in the state that won't touch this program with a 10-foot pole.

The republican who didn't increase the minimum wage also hates working families you say?

In what sense?

Yup, exactly.

> By making it voluntary for businesses instead of a broad-based tax for everyone, he's fucked over the working poor who work for McD's, Walgreens, Maplefields and all the other worker-hostile companies in the state that won't touch this program with a 10-foot pole.

What they said ^

Let's hope the democratic supermajority makes this moot.

Ah...yup, I hear you.

Would they have enough votes to override a Gov. veto?

Yes, if they can unify—sometimes… erratic… people get elected. Need 100, have 104.

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Meanwhile…

Edit: to be clear, I understand this is discuss sick leave and not family leave, but the attitude is the same. Just happened upon this example today and had it within arms reach. Capitalism is a death cult.

So what's new? The people that need it the most, suffer the most.

What were the chances?

Maybe we should make the high earning workers pay for those low earners.

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Find a better job then

Gonna ask again. Why do we keep voting him back in?

He keeps the lights on?, and he get’s the job done, or is this an effort by the natives to worship and support a sort of aristocracy and fiefdom.

Has VT always had this odd sort of caste system? I’m serious. Why? It seems really counter productive to all our best interests.

So....employers could purchase insurance that mirrors the short term disability insurance that some employers already offer their employees? And since it is optional the employers who should purchase it likely won't. Am I missing something here? This is NOT the paid family leave our state needs.

You’re not missing anything. Those who need it the most won’t get it.

This is bullshit.

As an employer and employee and parent… just make it mandatory. If we solved this and child care we’d get so many young families to stay in the state. This would be a massive amount of stress taken away from young families.

I’d gladly pay into this so some one else can take time to be with their sick kids without missing a rent payment.

It's already voluntary lol

McDonalds actually has better benefits than a lot of small business.

I know it goes against you narrative but it is true. For the people who stay a year and the franchise starts to invest in, they do better then a lot of local construction companies who hire in the spring and fire in the fall.

https://www.zippia.com/mcdonald-s-careers-7238/benefits/

Ohh wow 60 percent for 6 weeks that's totally enough to care for a newborn since at 6 weeks it should be out the door and working.

I'm happy for SOME movement but we are so fucking far behind every other country for what we offer to people trying to create families.

A rough C-section recovery is more than 6 weeks. Average is 6 weeks.

With this proposal we’re basically saying take the minimal time you need to be able to work again. What about being with your newborn and not having your life destroyed by the stress and transition on top of postpartum.

If we give a shit about families at all 6 weeks is a joke.

It's all part of the state government's plan: get the icky poor working people out, get the out-of-state WFH yuppies in.

Oh, dear. We can probably fix this. I vote for him because he’s convinced me that he listens to Vermonters. If we speak up about this and he ignores it, he’ll lose my trust.

Re-election in VT =

1. appear to be a ‘nice guy,’ not obviously cruel
2. don’t make waves/ piss anyone off
3. appear to be centrist so you can avoid the worst of ‘both sides’ while enjoying the best
4. VTers have daddy issues- gravitas counts or at least that’s how many rationalize it and plenty don’t have it, hard to separate from
5. competence/experience- his opp. was not long in it.

The vetoes alone should be a disqualifier. He really does put a quiet calm face on shitty RNC policies.

VT never votes out incumbent governors.

With the worker shortage these places are all offering sign on bonus and wage increases that are far more costly then the $16/month this optional program will cost them. Some won’t opt in, but the ones trying to attract workers will likely add it.
And at this point they’re all trying to find workers.

Where are all the Dems/“Progs” singing Phil Scott’s praises? I was under the impression he was a “great leader” and not a “typical Republican”.

Vermont small business already gets crushed, and this will be the death knell for countless businesses.

He vetoed paid family leave twice. I don’t get how he still has any progressive votes.

I mean if the dems put up a competent candidate they might have a chance, but so far they have all been terrible.

He ran against a person with a 75 IQ.

This is because in the past 50 years the majority of state politicians are those WFH yuppies. Current makeup has over 50% born in NY/MA/CT and other wealthy suburbs in east coast cities. People wonder why traditional VT values are no longer represented, this is the reason. The people making laws are doing so with the values they think makes VT what it is but are unfortunately, often mistaken. This is not to say they have ill intent, just that they are wrong. How can you grow up in a wealthy suburb of Boston or New Haven and know what is best to keep VT the place you wanted to move?

We have as a state, been heavily gentrified in the past 30 years. The guy stealing shit in Rutland is the outcome of this. Rent and land costs force natives into what are effectively ghettos while rich out of staters buy old farm houses then insist on a state licensure program to work on them.

VT is fucked. When Scott is leaves office we will be even more fucked.

How do you figure? It's voluntary. I can't say I have sympathy for business owners instead of the women that have a child and have to go right back to work. If you can't afford to pay your workers a living wage and treat them like human beings then maybe your business just isn't sustainable.